Watch: Footage of the Sars “hostage drama” that has everyone talking [video]

Couldn't make this ish up if you tried.

Earlier today, news broke that the whole NPA charging Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan thing is increasingly looking like a badly handled political plot. But with this plot comes a subplot, one that sounds like something out of a bad Hollywood movie.

The story goes like this: there was an incident at the South African Revenue Service (Sars) where four Hawks officials held a senior Sars employee against his will in an attempt to obtain documents related to the fraud charges against Gordhan.

On Thursday, the finance minister said that he had heard talk of the case, but does not have any official report.

“The incident at Sars, I heard whispers about it to be frank. I have no formal report yet. I believe there’s something on the wires this morning, but I haven’t had a chance to look at it,” Gordhan said.

The Mail & Guardian published footage of the incident on Twitter.

WATCH: Sars employee Vlok Symington held against his will by the Hawks' Nyameka Xaba and Tom Moyane's bodyguard pic.twitter.com/rbsOc5TsKW